What will Earth look like 250 million years from now? In this video, we journey into the deep future to explore a day on our ...

Markets are signaling that stability is strength, and the recent agreement between the U.S. and China to resume rare earth ...

The sun's ascent above Earth's horizon is observed from the International Space Station, marking the approaching peak of ...

A new study published in The Innovation highlights the launch of Haishao-1 (HS-1), China's first low-inclination orbit ...

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

Earth isn’t standing as straight as it used to—something has actually made our planet tilt, and it’s not great news.

The summer solstice is a moment in space and time during the annual orbit when our tilted planet’s Northern Hemisphere points the most toward the sun.

Disaster looms over Earth The planet’s tilt has increased by about 80 centimeters in the last couple of decades, as per the study led by Ki-Weon Seo, a veteran geophysicist and associate ...

Theia is named for the Greek goddess of light, daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (sky), and mother of the sun, moon and dawn. According to this theory, the Earth had no tilt before Theia’s impact.

Earth’s tilt as it orbits around the Sun puts that one part of the planet more directly exposed to the Sun’s rays. iStock via Getty Images Seasonal changes are the most dramatic at the poles, where ...